Quotes About Contemplation

All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true.

I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense

The main thing on Caleb Walker's mind as he sat at the table in the kitchen that morning was tits.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

In the presence of God himself man stands always like a solitary tree in the wilderness.

There comes a time to everyone when the world narrows for him to a strait alley, with Death at the end of it, and all his thoughts are fixed on that waiting enemy of mankind.

The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.

Old age ... is slower than a grenade, but a lot more thorough.

Books are the glass of council to dress ourselves by.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

There you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea, with nothing ruffled but the waves. The tranced ship indolently rolls; the drowsy trade winds blow; everything resolves you into languor. For

Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries - stand that man on his legs, let his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region... Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

He paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

oh armadores de Nantucket! ¡Cuidado con alistar en vuestras vigilantes pesquerías a ningún muchacho de frente descarnada y mirada profunda, dado a tan inoportuna meditatividad, y que se ofrece para embarcarse llevando en la cabeza el «Fedón» en vez del Bowditch! Cuidado con semejante persona

Y si uno es un filósofo, aunque esté sentado en una lancha ballenera no sentirá un ápice más de terror que sentado ante el fuego del anochecer, con un atizador y no un arpón al lado.

Pensar é audácia

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

palsied as it were, and leaning over sadly. It stood on

every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

post-mortemizing of

All profound things and emotion of things are proceeded and attended by silence

As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed the air, it then only glows to be looked at; the evening shades and phantoms gathering round the casements, and peering upon us silent, solitary twain; the storm booming without its solemn swells; I began to be sensible of strange feelings.